A Southern California mayor resigned from office on Monday after being charged with acting as an illegal agent of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/arcadia-mayor-federally-charged-acting-illegal-agent-peoples-republic-china">t</a><a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/arcadia-mayor-federally-charged-acting-illegal-agent-peoples-republic-china">he Justice Department announced.</a>
Eileen Wang, 58, of Arcadia, agreed to plead guilty to a single felony count that carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in federal prison.
Wang, a Democrat, was first elected to the five-member Arcadia City Council in November 2022. The city operates a rotating mayoral system among its elected council members. She has resigned from the city government and vacated her position as mayor, according to the city’s website. Arcadia has more than 54,000 residents and is located about 13 miles northeast of downtown Los Angeles in the San Gabriel Valley.
Prosecutors say that between 2020 and 2022, Wang and her former fiancé and campaign manager, Yaoning “Mike” Sun, 65, of Chino Hills, acted at the direction of Chinese government officials, coordinating with U.S.-based individuals to advance Beijing’s interests by spreading pro-China propaganda in the United States. Sun pleaded guilty to acting as an illegal agent of a foreign government and<a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/political-operative-sentenced-4-years-federal-prison-acting-covert-agent-peoples"> serving a four-year federal prison sentence. </a>
Under the plea agreement, Wang admitted she never notified the authorities that she was acting in the United States as a PRC agent.  
“Individuals elected to public office in the United States should act only for the people of the United States that they represent,” Assistant Attorney General for National Security John A. Eisenberg said.  “It is deeply concerning that someone who previously received and executed directives from PRC government officials is now in a position of public trust at all, but particularly so because that relationship with that foreign government had never been disclosed.”
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Arcadia Mayor Eileen Wang has been charged with violating 18 USC 951, acting in the United States as an illegal agent of the People’s Republic of China.
Wang appeared in federal court this afternoon for her arraignment. She agreed to plead guilty and resign from public office.… <a href="https://t.co/toYWJ7htvG">pic.twitter.com/toYWJ7htvG</a>
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Wang and Sun, according to the DOJ, operated the U.S. News Center, a website that presented itself as a news source for the local Chinese American community. Prosecutors say the pair acted on orders from Chinese government officials to publish state-sponsored propaganda. 
In one example cited by prosecutors, a Chinese official contacted Wang through a messaging app in June 2021 and with &#8220;prewritten news articles,&#8221; including an essay published in the Los Angeles Times claiming there was “no genocide in Xinjiang” and no “forced labor” tied to cotton production in the region. 
Minutes later, prosecutors say Wang posted the article on her own website and responded to the Chinese official with a link.
 “So fast, thank you, everyone,” the Beijing official responded. 
&#8220;All Americans should be alarmed to learn an elected official was brazenly spreading propaganda on behalf of the Chinese government, Patrick Grandy, the Assistant Director of the FBI&#8217;s Los Angeles Field Office, said. 
In November 2021, Wang communicated with an elite member of the PRC intelligence apparatus, who regularly attended Chinese Communist Party functions, including military parades, and met personally with PRC President Xi Jinping. 
The charges come amid President Donald Trump&#8217;s trip to China this week. Trump is expected to arrive on Wednesday evening, and on Thursday morning, he is expected to participate in a welcome ceremony and a bilateral meeting with President Xi, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/daily-wire-asks-trump-about-jailed-publisher-jimmy-lai-he-responds-with-message-to-beijing">The Daily Wire previously reported.</a> On Friday, Trump will also participate in a bilateral working lunch with President Xi before heading home.
“Individuals in our country who covertly do the bidding of foreign governments undermine our democracy,” First Assistant United States Attorney Bill Essayli said. “This plea agreement is the latest success in our determination to defend the homeland against China’s efforts to corrupt our institutions.”

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Feds Charge California Democrat For Acting As Chinese Agent

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When FBI agents and an armored vehicle rolled into a Portsmouth strip mall on Wednesday morning and ordered employees of a cannabis dispensary out with their hands up, Virginia Democrats had their narrative ready before the agents had finished bagging evidence. Sen. L. Louise Lucas, the most powerful Democrat in Richmond and the co-owner of the dispensary in question, declared that the search of her legislative office and her business was “about power and who is allowed to use it on behalf of the people.” House Speaker Don Scott blamed President Donald Trump’s “abuse of the Department of Justice.” Congressman Bobby Scott invoked the redistricting referendum Lucas had championed two weeks earlier. The Virginia Legislative Black Caucus warned of “personal political persecution.” Attorney General Jay Jones suggested the public should distrust the U.S. Attorney’s Office. 
There is one inconvenient fact that none of them addressed. 
The corruption probe that produced Wednesday’s warrants did not begin on January 20, 2025. It did not begin under Attorney General Pam Bondi or FBI Director Kash Patel. It began under former President Joe Biden, Attorney General Merrick Garland, and FBI Director Christopher Wray. CNN reported, citing a source familiar with the matter, that the searches are part of a federal corruption investigation related to marijuana dispensaries that opened during the prior administration. The New York Times confirmed the same timeline. The investigation predates the redistricting fight by years, predates Trump’s second term entirely, and was approved at every step by a Justice Department that Democrats themselves repeatedly described as the most professional in modern history. 
That alone collapses the political-persecution defense. But the public record offers more. 
In April, a federal grand jury indicted Carlton Upton Jr. on three felony counts of wire fraud. Upton owns one of the dispensaries searched on Wednesday and, according to local reporting, previously worked with Lucas as a business partner. Federal prosecutors do not obtain wire fraud indictments from grand juries on a hunch, and they certainly do not execute coordinated raids on a sitting state senator’s office, her business, and additional locations across the Commonwealth without a federal magistrate first reviewing a sworn affidavit and finding probable cause. A judge signed those warrants. Whether or not Lucas herself is ever charged, something in the underlying conduct of this enterprise persuaded a court that evidence of federal crimes was likely to be found inside her office.
The Democratic response has been to act as if none of this matters. Lucas’s own statement did not address the substance of the investigation at all. She did not deny wrongdoing. She did not explain her financial relationship with the dispensary or with Upton. She pivoted directly to redistricting and Donald Trump. That is the move of a politician whose lawyers have told her not to engage on the merits, dressed up as a press release about democracy. 
Speaker Scott’s complaint that Fox News appeared on the scene before local outlets is similarly beside the point. Reporters are constantly tipped off about federal raids. The interesting question is not who arrived first at the parking lot. The interesting question is what was inside the boxes that agents carried out. 
There is a broader pattern worth noticing here, and it has nothing to do with Trump. Virginia legalized adult marijuana possession in 2021, but never built a functioning legal retail market. Into that vacuum stepped a gray-market industry of “gifting” shops, hemp-derived THC outlets, and storefronts operating in legal twilight, several of them with politically connected ownership. Sen. Lucas has been one of the General Assembly’s loudest advocates for expanding cannabis commerce, including legislation that would have routed tax revenue from sales into state coffers. When a state’s most powerful budget writer is also a co-owner of businesses operating in the very industry she is trying to regulate and tax, the conditions for federal interest are not manufactured by the White House. They are created by the senator. 
Virginians are entitled to a presumption of innocence for Sen. Lucas, and she will receive one. What she is not entitled to is the conversion of every serious federal investigation involving a Democrat into a referendum on Donald Trump. Wednesday’s raid was authorized by a federal judge, executed pursuant to a probe opened under a Democratic administration, and follows a federal indictment of her former business partner. The political-persecution script does not survive contact with the calendar. 
The voters of the Commonwealth deserve to know what happened in those Portsmouth offices. They will not learn it from a press release that mentions Donald Trump six times and the underlying facts zero.
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Del. Wren Williams represents Virginia&#8217;s 47th House District (Patrick County and surrounding area). He is an attorney and a member of the House Republican Caucus.

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Virginia Democrats’ Weed Bust Corruption Defense Goes Up In Smoke

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Sen. L. Louise Lucas

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CNN panelists might have amnesia. It’s worse, apparently, than the former vegetable-in-chief they spent years defending.
On Wednesday&#8217;s NewsNight, a pompous and overconfident Neera Tanden, former senior Joe Biden White House official, talked over Scott Jennings, wildly gesturing and insisting that Joe Biden never went after his political opponents! She seemed personally offended by the suggestion.
Maybe she’s still living in the brain-dead Biden era, where a constant ice cream-brain freeze obscured reality. But Joe Biden’s administration almost singularly targeted conservatives, Christians, and, as it turns out, nuns — for the crime of being nuns.
That’s one way to book a direct trip to hell. 
According to a new exclusive Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-biden-doj-lawyers-fantasized-about-prosecuting-catholic-nuns-emails-show?author=Mary+Margaret+Olohan&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=EXCLUSIVE%3A+Biden+DOJ+Lawyers+Fantasized+About+Prosecuting+Catholic+Nuns%2C+Emails+Show">report</a>, Justice Department prosecutors in the Biden administration fantasized about targeting Catholic sisters. Text messages obtained by Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) show DOJ attorneys Joseph Cooney and Molly Gaston salivating over a New York Times photo of religious sisters in traditional habits and veils at the January 6 rally.
“I would like to take a special assignment of finding and prosecuting them,” Gaston wrote. Cooney replied: “I’m with you. Although I’d like to prosecute any nun who still wears the head habit.” Then: “Hahaha.”
God’s not laughing.
This is the same Cooney who is now running to represent Virginia&#8217;s 7th congressional district — right in the heart of the Diocese of Arlington, one of the most traditional Catholic dioceses in the United States, serving over 430,000 faithful. The irony appears entirely lost on him. You’d have to possess a breathtaking level of arrogance to miss it.
If this sounds familiar, it&#8217;s because earlier this month, the Trump DOJ&#8217;s Weaponization Working Group released an 800-page report exposing the lengths to which the Biden administration weaponized the FACE Act against peaceful pro-life defendants — mostly Christians — while barely acknowledging the firebombings, vandalism, and coordinated attacks on pregnancy centers and churches.
They called Christian beliefs “culty” in open court, screened jurors for religiosity, and dispatched 16 FBI agents to arrest Catholic father Mark Houck in front of his weeping children. All while cozying up to abortion advocacy groups who fed them dossiers on pro-life activists. 
Sure, gas was high, the economy was in the toilet, and illegal migrants were flooding our borders. But hey, at least the nuns and baby-lovers were getting prosecuted. In fact, Biden prosecutors sought an average of 26.8 months in prison for pro-lifers.
I don’t want to hear about the “weaponization of the DOJ” from a former staffer of the man who wrote the book on it.
One side note: In light of King Charles <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-empty-crown-why-america-should-ignore-king-charles">jetting</a> here this week to lecture us on religious tolerance and “shared values” in his address to Congress, I ask that his majesty aim his bloody, blasphemous babbling at the previous president, please and thank you. As it was, he was the religiously intolerant one. Of Christians.
Of course, beneath all of these lies is something far more sinister. It’s the quiet part they desperately want to say aloud: a seething hatred of the entire edifice of human rights, individual liberty, limited government, and objective morality that built the richest, freest, and most innovative societies in human history. That edifice rests on one revolutionary Judeo-Christian idea — Imago Dei. Every human being is made in the image of God. That single doctrine shattered pagan hierarchies, declared that kings and peasants alike have equal dignity before the Creator, and slapped a firm moral limit on the reach of government power. 
 
They despise the religious conviction that makes abortion grotesque. The faith that gave us the work ethic and charitable impulse that built universities, hospitals, and the scientific revolution. The moral foundation that gave us a rule of law, declaring that even the president answers to a higher authority. 
John Adams wasn’t kidding when he said the Constitution only works for “moral and religious people.” Strip away that Judeo-Christian root and you don’t get neutral secularism, you get moral subjectivism, where feelings replace facts and the state becomes the new God, deciding who has rights and who gets hunted. 
The Biden DOJ was purposeful and nefarious. It was, in effect, an extinction project. They know Christianity stands in the way of total cultural control, so they smear pro-lifers as “extremists,” surveil churches, stack the DOJ with activists who openly despise traditional faith, and literally text each other about hunting nuns.
And then Neera Tanden has the audacity to sit on CNN and pretend none of it happened. 
Spare us. 
I think they’re arrogant ideologues who hold the rest of us in contempt. But I’ll still pray for them.

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Turns Out The Seething, Anti-Christian Biden DOJ Was Real All Along

Biden Administration

Christian Persecution

The man accused of attempting to assassinate President Donald Trump at Saturday&#8217;s White House Correspondents&#8217; Dinner also shot a Secret Service agent&#8217;s bulletproof vest, <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/correspondents-dinner-secret-service-cole-allen-rcna342788">according to NBC News</a>.
Cole Thomas Allen, 31, was armed with a shotgun, handgun, and knives when he charged through a security checkpoint inside the Washington Hilton Hotel, where the event was being held.
One floor above the ballroom packed with government officials and reporters, Allen discharged one of his weapons, hitting a Secret Service agent in the vest, NBC reported on Wednesday. Some early reports indicated the agent may have been hit by friendly fire. The Secret Service agent was released from the hospital over the weekend.
Federal authorities have charged Allen with discharging a weapon, but he has not been separately charged with assaulting a federal officer.
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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chilling-hotel-selfie-shows-suspect-minutes-before-he-attempted-to-murder-trump">The Daily Wire reported Wednesday</a> that Allen tracked Trump’s movements online and arming himself for the occasion, according to documents filed by the Justice Department.
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According to the documents, Allen monitored live coverage of Trump&#8217;s arrival at the event shortly before the attack.
At about 8:30 p.m., Allen left his hotel room and made his way toward the event. As he approached a security checkpoint, he threw off a long black coat that concealed his shotgun, then charged through the checkpoint and headed toward a staircase leading to the ballroom.
“Had the defendant achieved his intended outcome, he would have brought about one of the darkest days in American history,&#8221; prosecutors wrote.
Allen faces charges of attempting to assassinate the president of the United States, transporting a firearm and ammunition across state lines with intent to commit a felony, and discharging a firearm during a crime of violence. If convicted, he faces life in prison.

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Bullet That Struck Secret Service Agent’s Vest Now Traced To Would-Be Assassin

Bullet That Struck Agent’s Vest Now Traced To

Cole Thomas Allen

Secret Service

WASHINGTON — Justice Department prosecutors in the Biden administration discussed their desire to target Catholic nuns, text messages shared with The Daily Wire show.
Communications obtained by Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) show <a href="https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/trump-trial-special-counsel-jack-smith-prosecutors-team-20d57b78" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joseph Cooney and Molly Gaston</a> texting one another in February 2021 as they scoured media coverage of January 6. The texts specifically reference a New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/01/29/us/oath-keepers-capitol-riot.html#:~:text=Donovan%20Crowl%20and%20Jessica%20Watkins,Watkins%20close%20by." target="_blank" rel="noopener">photo of religious sisters</a> who attended the &#8220;Stop the Steal&#8221; rally, wearing traditional habits and veils, as well as big Trump scarves around their necks.
&#8220;I would like to take a special assignment of finding and prosecuting them,&#8221; Gaston wrote to Cooney.
&#8220;I&#8217;m with you,&#8221; responded Cooney. &#8220;Although I&#8217;d like to prosecute any nun who still wears the head habit.&#8221;
&#8220;Hahaha,&#8221; his fellow DOJ prosecutor responded.
The Justice Department provided the communications to Grassley as part of his investigation into Arctic Frost, an FBI investigation into Republicans and conservatives. Both Cooney and Gaston went on to serve as top deputies to Special Counsel Jack Smith throughout his Arctic Frost investigation. They now head &#8220;Gaston &amp; Cooney PLLC,&#8221; and Cooney is running for Congress in Virginia.
Grassley, who previously released messages showing that Cooney and other DOJ prosecutors sought to find ways to target Trump with criminal charges over January 6, told The Daily Wire that he found the messages appalling.
“Freedom of religion is a cherished First Amendment right enshrined in our Constitution by the Founding Fathers,&#8221; the senator said. &#8220;I was appalled, but sadly not surprised, to discover evidence of Biden DOJ prosecutors threatening to use the power of the federal justice system to target people of faith.&#8221;
&#8220;Time and again, my oversight has shown the Biden Justice Department, including these prosecutors who went on to advance Jack Smith’s Arctic Frost investigation, showed total disdain for equal justice,&#8221; he added.
Cooney, who did not immediately respond to a request for comment, is now running as a Democrat for a congressional seat in Virginia — specifically Virginia&#8217;s 7th congressional district, which is part of the Diocese of Arlington, one of the most traditional Catholic dioceses in the United States serving over 430,000 Catholics in the Northern Virginia area.
He&#8217;s running on an overtly anti-Trump platform, telling CNN last week: &#8220;Donald Trump needs to be impeached. I’m running for Congress to do it.&#8221;
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Donald Trump needs to be impeached.
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— J.P. Cooney (@cooneycongress) <a href="https://twitter.com/cooneycongress/status/2047876577883509038?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">April 25, 2026</a></blockquote>
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Cooney also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/explosive-report-reveals-the-biden-administrations-disdain-for-religious-pro-life-activists?author=Mary+Margaret+Olohan&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=2&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Explosive+Report+Reveals+The+Biden+Administration%E2%80%99s+Disdain+For+Religious+Pro-Life+Activists" target="_blank" rel="noopener">disparaged the report</a> the DOJ put out this month on the weaponization of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, defending the Justice Department&#8217;s actions after it was exposed that the Biden DOJ used FACE to prosecute and imprison pro-life protesters while providing &#8220;extensive support to abortion clinics” and ignoring and downplaying &#8220;vandalism and attacks against pregnancy resource centers or houses of worship.”
The report also found that the Biden DOJ was in constant contact with pro-abortion groups to track the travel plans of Christian pro-life activists who had not been charged with any crimes.
Cooney, however, said he is proud of his team&#8217;s work on these cases.
&#8220;The Trump DOJ&#8217;s report on the FACE Act is false,&#8221; Cooney said in a post on social media. &#8220;I am proud of my team&#8217;s work prosecuting people who conspired to barricade a reproductive health clinic, shoved staff, and forced a woman seeking treatment to climb through a reception window. That&#8217;s not First Amendment activity — that&#8217;s a crime.&#8221;
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— J.P. Cooney (@cooneycongress) <a href="https://twitter.com/cooneycongress/status/2044132489543991782?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">April 14, 2026</a></blockquote>
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In other messages reviewed by The Daily Wire, Cooney and Gaston discussed COVID-19 restrictions on Catholic masses. Gaston complained that it was &#8220;insane&#8221; for Catholics to be upset that then-President Joe Biden was receiving Holy Communion at Holy Trinity in Georgetown.
&#8220;People are insane,&#8221; she told Cooney.
&#8220;It&#8217;s ridiculous,&#8221; he responded, before asking her if she was going to mass in person. When Gaston replied that no, she wasn&#8217;t going to mass, and she wasn&#8217;t even watching mass via a live stream, Cooney shared that someone he knew (their name was redacted) was going to &#8220;daily mass since the summer, thankfully without a problem.&#8221;
&#8220;They really shouldn&#8217;t be doing that,&#8221; he added.
&#8220;Wow,&#8221; responded Gaston. &#8220;Good for them, except not.&#8221;
The New York Post&#8217;s Miranda Devine reported last summer that Cooney and other prosecutors showed &#8220;nitpicking malice&#8221; that &#8220;tainted special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation.&#8221;
“Can we do some work to nail down Trump’s role in this,” Cooney wrote to his colleagues at the DOJ in a March 8, 2023, email with the subject line: “J6 Prisoner Choir/DJT.”
Cooney attached an article from Forbes that was headlined “Trump Collaborates On Song With Jan. 6 Defendants,&#8221; writing that Trump recorded the January 6 prisoner choir singing the &#8220;Pledge of Allegiance&#8221; at Mar-a-Lago.
&#8220;Proceeds are intended for families of incarcerated J6 defendants — but there is apparently a vetting process that excludes families of defendants who assaulted police officers,&#8221; Cooney wrote, according to the New York Post, adding that he would talk to colleagues about &#8220;doing some follow up here to nail down Trump’s role.”

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EXCLUSIVE: Biden DOJ Lawyers Fantasized About Prosecuting Catholic Nuns, Emails Show

Chuck Grassley

Joe Biden

The United States Department of Justice on Tuesday indicted former FBI Director James Comey for a second time.
The new charges stemmed from a provocative Instagram post shared by the ex-FBI chief last year. Comey&#8217;s photo showed a seashell formation — which he claimed to have stumbled across by happenstance — depicting the numbers &#8220;86&#8221; and &#8220;47.&#8221;
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Critics immediately assumed that the shell formation had a sinister meaning. In the restaurant world, &#8220;86&#8221; generally means to take out or eliminate, and &#8220;47&#8221; was a presumptive reference to President Donald Trump, who is currently serving as the 47th President of the United States.
A federal grand jury in North Carolina <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nced.227449/gov.uscourts.nced.227449.1.0_2.pdf">returned a two-count felony indictment and an arrest warrant</a> against Comey: making threats to kill or harm President Trump, and sending those threats across state lines using social media.
&#8220;While this case is unique and this indictment stands out because of the name of the defendant, his alleged conduct is the same kind of conduct that we will never tolerate and that we will always investigate and regularly prosecute,&#8221; Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said. 
Comey, in a<a href="https://jamescomey.substack.com/p/seashells?r=16z5v&amp;utm_medium=ios&amp;triedRedirect=true"> video posted on his Substack</a>, said he&#8217;s innocent.
&#8220;Well, they&#8217;re back. This time about a picture of seashells on a North Carolina Beach a year ago, and this won&#8217;t be the end of it, but nothing has changed with me. I&#8217;m still innocent, I&#8217;m still not afraid, and I still believe in the independent federal judiciary, so let&#8217;s go,&#8221; Comey said. &#8220;But it&#8217;s really important that all of us remember this is not who we are as a country. This is not how the Department of Justice is supposed to be. And the good news is we get closer every day to restoring those values &#8212; keep the faith.&#8221;
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Just James Comey causally calling for my dad to be murdered.
This is who the Dem-Media worships. Demented!!!! <a href="https://t.co/4LUK6crHAT">pic.twitter.com/4LUK6crHAT</a>
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) <a href="https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1923118680658862260?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 15, 2025</a></blockquote>
The now-deleted post earned Comey a visit from the Secret Service — and the ousted FBI head honcho released a public message attempting to downplay the incident.
“I posted a picture earlier of some shells I saw on a beach walk, which I assumed were a political message,” <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DJsN4GAPoxY/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;ig_rid=886304d8-adff-42b4-905a-620db16415c1">Comey said on Instagram.</a> “I didn’t realize some folks associate those numbers with violence. It never occurred to me but I oppose violence of any kind so I took the post down.”
The Justice Department said the case has been under investigation over the past 11 months.
&#8220;This investigation just didn&#8217;t come now. It&#8217;s the result of a lot of work by law enforcement over the past year,&#8221; Blanche said. &#8220;I am not going to talk about the evidence that we have. That&#8217;s unfair to him. It&#8217;s unfair to the prosecutors, but it&#8217;s enough to say that the grand jury returned an indictment.&#8221;
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In September 2025, the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/federal-judge-tosses-charges-against-james-comey-letitia-james">Department of Justice indicted</a> Comey for making false statements and obstruction of a congressional proceeding. A federal judge dismissed those charges, finding that Lindsey Halligan, the Trump-appointed prosecutor who secured their indictments, was unlawfully serving as interim U.S. attorney.

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Democrats melted down Tuesday over the second indictment of former FBI Director James Comey, blasting the charges as politically motivated and claiming they reflect a weaponized Department of Justice.
&#8220;Different Trump defense lawyer running the DOJ, same old story. Weaponized justice. Vindictive prosecutions. Catering to an audience of one. Perverting the rule of law, one enemy at a time,&#8221; Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) <a href="https://x.com/SenAdamSchiff/status/2049254370101858394?s=20">bemoaned on social media. </a>
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Different Trump defense lawyer running the DOJ, same old story.
Weaponized justice. Vindictive prosecutions. Catering to an audience of one.
Perverting the rule of law, one enemy at a time. <a href="https://t.co/9APAlbbuqj">pic.twitter.com/9APAlbbuqj</a>
— Adam Schiff (@SenAdamSchiff) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenAdamSchiff/status/2049254370101858394?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 28, 2026</a></blockquote>
Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) questioned the quality of the FBI investigation, calling it a <a href="https://x.com/tedlieu/status/2049243658054971565?s=20">&#8220;loser case.&#8221;</a>
&#8220;Did agents print out the seashells picture and look at it upside down? Send it for DNA testing? [Acting Attorney General Todd] Blanche is bringing this loser case again to kiss trump’s (sic) ass,&#8221; he wrote.
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This is an asinine statement by <a href="https://twitter.com/DAGToddBlanche?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DAGToddBlanche</a>, that there was “a lot of work by law enforcement over the past year.”
Did agents print out the seashells picture and look at it upside down? Send it for DNA testing?
Blanche is bringing this loser case again to kiss trump’s ass. <a href="https://t.co/PQQxNUToJb">https://t.co/PQQxNUToJb</a>
— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) <a href="https://twitter.com/tedlieu/status/2049235697316327479?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 28, 2026</a></blockquote>
Illinois Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker escalated the criticism, slamming President Donald Trump as an &#8220;authoritarian&#8221; and accusing his administration of stripping Americans of their rights.
&#8220;The president, on the other hand, is literally using the Department of Justice to take people to prison. He is indicting people and prosecuting people for no reason other than they are his opponents. So there&#8217;s a big difference in what each side is doing here,&#8221; Pritzker said in an interview with NBC.
&#8220;It may take us a couple of years, in fact, to go after people like Kash Patel, like Kristi Noem, like Tom Homan, like Greg Bovino, but we are coming after them,&#8221; he added.
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Today on Meet the Press Now, JB Pritzker calls President Trump an &#8220;authoritarian, and if we are not pushing back every single day, then we&#8217;re doing it wrong.&#8221;
A few seconds later, Pritzker threatens Trump admin officials: &#8220;It may take us a couple of years, in fact, to go after… <a href="https://t.co/UxrRHq1L6R">pic.twitter.com/UxrRHq1L6R</a>
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) <a href="https://twitter.com/SteveGuest/status/2049241692373450788?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 28, 2026</a></blockquote>
Mark Elias, a prominent Democratic attorney, warned the case signals a lasting shift at the Justice Department.
“We’re not talking about indicting a ham sandwich. We’re literally talking about indicting someone over seashells on the beach. Who knows what’s going to happen? Who knows who they’ll go after next?” Elias said on MSNOW.
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🚨 NOW: Leftist cheating election lawyer Marc Elias WARNS of possible DOJ RETRIBUTION if Democrats take power again
Elias is known for MASS SUING Republican laws that safeguard elections — and is also targeting Florida
VOTE AGAINST THEM IN NOVEMBER! <a href="https://t.co/tTyzPQrsFu">pic.twitter.com/tTyzPQrsFu</a>
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) <a href="https://twitter.com/EricLDaugh/status/2049253000321855991?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 28, 2026</a></blockquote>
The outrage comes after a federal grand jury <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nced.227449/gov.uscourts.nced.227449.1.0_2.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">returned a two-count felony indictment and arrest warrant</a> against Comey, accusing him of making threats to kill or harm President Trump and transmitting those threats across state lines using social media.
The controversy centers on a provocative Instagram post shared by the former FBI chief last year. Comey’s photo showed seashells arranged to form the numbers “86” and “47&#8243; on a North Carolina beach. In the restaurant world, “86” generally means to take out or eliminate, and “47” was a presumptive reference to Trump, the 47th president of the United States.
In a <a href="https://jamescomey.substack.com/p/seashells?r=16z5v&amp;utm_medium=ios&amp;triedRedirect=true">video posted to his Substack</a>, Comey denied any wrongdoing.
“Well, they’re back. This time, about a picture of seashells on a North Carolina Beach a year ago, and this won’t be the end of it, but nothing has changed with me. I’m still innocent, I’m still not afraid, and I still believe in the independent federal judiciary, so let’s go,” Comey said.
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President Donald Trump&#8217;s Department of Justice on Friday directed the Bureau of Prisons to bring back the firing squad and lethal injection for federal executions.
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-takes-actions-strengthen-federal-death-penalty">announced a series of new measures</a> to strengthen enforcement of the federal death penalty, clearing the way for the DOJ to carry out executions once inmates exhaust their appeals.
&#8220;Among the actions taken are readopting the lethal injection protocol utilized during the first Trump Administration, expanding the protocol to include additional manners of execution such as the firing squad, and streamlining internal processes to expedite death penalty cases,&#8221; Blanche said.
&#8220;These steps are critical to deterring the most barbaric crimes, delivering justice for victims, and providing long-overdue closure to surviving loved ones,&#8221; he added.
The directives fulfill a campaign promise for Trump, who on his first day back in office <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/restoring-the-death-penalty-and-protecting-public-safety/">ordered the attorney general</a> to &#8220;pursue the death penalty for all crimes of a severity demanding its use.&#8221;
The policy marks a reversal from the Biden administration&#8217;s handling of federal executions.
In 2021, former President Joe Biden imposed an indefinite moratorium, effectively blocking all federal executions. In December 2024, he commuted the sentences of 37 of 40 inmates on federal death row at the urging of then-Attorney General Merrick Garland.
Those granted mass clemency included Thomas Sanders, who was convicted of murdering <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-commutes-sentences-of-dozens-of-murderers-two-days-before-christmas">12-year-old Lexis Roberts</a> and hiding her body in the woods. Another included Daryl Lawrence, who killed 33-year-old Ohio police officer Bryan Hurst during a 2005 bank robbery in Columbus.
&#8220;These actions inflicted untold damage on countless lives and, ultimately, on the public’s confidence in the rule of law itself,&#8221; Blanche <a href="https://www.justice.gov/ag/media/1437806/dl?inline">said</a>.
The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-commutes-sentences-of-dozens-of-murderers-two-days-before-christmas">three inmates</a> excluded from the commutations were the Boston Marathon bomber, the Tree of Life synagogue shooter, and the man who murdered nine people at the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina.
Trump’s DOJ has lifted the federal execution moratorium and is seeking death sentences against <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-takes-actions-strengthen-federal-death-penalty">44 defendants</a>, including three MS-13 gang members, two of them illegal immigrants, according to the department. During Trump&#8217;s first term, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/24/us/politics/trump-firing-squad-executions-death-penalty.html">13 federal death row inmates</a> were executed.
“The prior administration failed in its duty to protect the American people by refusing to pursue and carry out the ultimate punishment against the most dangerous criminals, including terrorists, child murderers, and cop killers,” Blanche said. “Under President Trump’s leadership, the Department of Justice is once again enforcing the law and standing with victims.”

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According to the Wall Street Journal, the antitrust division of the U.S. Department of Justice is <a href="https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/justice-department-is-criminally-investigating-beef-companies-1f91a3c6">investigating</a> whether meatpackers engaged in criminal antitrust conduct. Last November, as consumer beef prices continued climbing, President Trump called upon the DOJ to investigate the practices of meatpackers.
Beef is among America’s most important protein sources, and understanding how beef makes its way to the grocery store reveals why consumers at the end of the beef supply chain and farmers and ranchers at its beginning are highly susceptible to foul play.
Think of the beef supply chain as a sand-filled hourglass. The sand-filled top represents the start of the beef supply chain, with the sand itself representing hundreds of thousands of widely dispersed, independent, family-scale cattle farmers and ranchers scattered across America. Now cattle grow slowly, and from the time they are born until they reach their optimal slaughter weight takes upwards of two years.
As the cattle grow, they flow downstream in the hourglass and are eventually transported from their distant, wide-open grassy birthplaces to large pens called feedlots, where they are congregated. Most feedlots are in the central and southern plains regions of the United States, and when cattle arrive, they are fed a highly concentrated diet that fattens them to slaughter weight.
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When fed to their optimal weight, these slaughter-ready cattle are offered for sale to the beef packers at the choke point of the hourglass, as here there are just four dominant beef packers who purchase and control 80% of the 25 million or so slaughter cattle entering the choke point each year. Of course, these same dominant packers also control 80% of the resultant beef that passes on through the choke point, which they then sell to grocery stores scattered across America for ultimate purchase by consumers.
It is at this highly concentrated and centralized choke point — the point at which the dominant beef packers purchase cattle from the feedlots and convert them into consumable beef — that foul play can cause harm to the cattle farmers and ranchers above the pinch point and consumers below.
For example, if the concentrated beef packers unlawfully collude by agreeing to reduce the number of cattle they will collectively slaughter, cattle will back up in the supply chain above the choke point, effectively reducing demand for cattle and lowering their prices paid to cattle farmers and ranchers. Because slaughtering fewer cattle will result in less beef, reducing the number of cattle the beef packers will collectively slaughter will reduce the available beef supply below the choke point, causing beef prices to increase.
Now it could be argued that colluding to lower cattle prices could result in lower consumer beef prices if the dominant beef packers were to pass their cost savings on to retailers, and ultimately consumers. But history shows otherwise.
Going back for more than four decades, the spread between the prices that farmers and ranchers receive for their cattle and the retail prices that consumers pay for beef has grown increasingly wider. This suggests that firms standing between America’s cattle ranchers and America’s consumers are somehow capturing artificially high profits along the beef supply chain.
How these supra-competitive profits are being extracted from the beef supply chain and by whom is likely a central focus of the DOJ’s ongoing antitrust investigation.
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During the past six years, several private class action antitrust lawsuits have been filed against the four largest beef packers operating in the United States – Tyson, JBS, Cargill, and National Beef Packing Company, alleging they had colluded to suppress cattle prices while simultaneously inflating beef prices. These civil antitrust lawsuits have alleged harm to virtually every segment of the beef supply chain, from cattle farmers and ranchers who sold cattle to the beef packers to consumers, distributors, and retailers who directly or indirectly purchased beef from the dominant beef packers. These private civil actions are still working their way through the court system and have so far resulted in settlements of over $170 million.
In at least one of these civil lawsuits, it is alleged that the dominant packers unlawfully colluded to suppress cattle prices from mid-2015 through early 2020. During that period, retail beef prices trended markedly upward while cattle prices trended downward, an anomaly signaling market failure in the beef supply chain, particularly since the only source of beef is cattle.
The question of whether beef packers engaged in unlawful antitrust conduct will be answered upon the completion of the numerous civil lawsuits pending against them and the result of the DOJ investigation. The outcome of the DOJ investigation alone will determine if principals representing the beef packers also engaged in criminal antitrust conduct.
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Bill Bullard is the CEO of R-CALF USA in Billings, Montana.

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We now know that the Biden administration was literally partnering with abortion activists to track and imprison pro-lifers.
When I see President Trump and Pope Leo going at it, I think to myself, if we&#8217;re going to talk about presidents who are legitimately attacking Catholics, we should really be talking about Barack Obama, who went after the Little Sisters of the Poor and decided that he was going to mainstream every sin he could find.
We should talk about Joe Biden, who apparently was using the DOJ to go after pro-lifers, which is insane.
According to Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-biden-partnered-with-abortion-activists-to-track-and-imprison-pro-lifers">reporting</a>, President Biden&#8217;s administration relied on information gathered from radical pro-abortion groups to track, prosecute, and snoop on peaceful pro-life protesters who were later arrested by the FBI.
A DOJ report titled “The Biden Administration&#8217;s Weaponization of the FACE Act” examined more than 700,000 records.
The FACE Act is a bill that was designed to prevent people from obstructing entry to abortion clinics. The FACE Act also said that you weren&#8217;t allowed to invade churches during services. That came up in the context of Don Lemon and his friends invading and disturbing a church service in order to protest ICE.
The dossiers that the DOJ examined contained information about pro-life activists who had not yet been charged with any federal crimes, but were deemed threats by abortion groups because of their activism.
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We&#8217;ve seen this kind of pattern emerge in all of the reporting from the Biden administration, over and over and over. They were using left-wing cutout groups to do their dirty work, whether it was the Biden administration State Department contracting out to other services to promote boycotts of right-wing news outlets, or whether it was the Biden administration outsourcing its investigative pursuits to anti-life, pro-choice organizations to target pro-lifers.
The Biden administration liked to do such things.
According to the Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-biden-partnered-with-abortion-activists-to-track-and-imprison-pro-lifers">reporting</a>, the weaponization can be traced to former Attorney General Merrick Garland&#8217;s resurrection of the National Task Force on Violence Against Reproductive Health Care Providers the month after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022.
That task force was operating out of the department&#8217;s civil rights division under the direction of Sanjay Patel, who was <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/doj-fires-4-prosecutors-face-act-biden-administration/">reportedly fired</a> on Monday. Patel was on texting terms with the National Abortion Federation security team and was regularly communicating with the Planned Parenthood Federation of America and the Feminist Majority Foundation, according to the DOJ. Members of the Biden DOJ were coordinating openly with various abortion groups and leaders in the abortion movement.
This was all part of these non-governmental organizations working hand-in-glove with the federal government under Joe Biden. Daily Wire reporting looked into the sentences that were sought by the Biden DOJ against pro-life activists, and what they found is that the Biden DOJ asked for a longer, average sentence for pro-life defendants compared to pro-abortion defendants. Actual sentences shook out to an average of 14 months for pro-life defendants, versus three months for pro-choice defendants.
This is astonishing. It demonstrates the full-scale animus that the Biden administration had for the pro-life movement.
This is nothing new. If you go back to the Clinton administration, the attempt to target political adversaries using the DOJ is perfectly obvious.
I&#8217;ve said over and over that the Left likes to say that Donald Trump broke all the rules, that he&#8217;s the one who killed the American political system.
The reality is that the American political system was already dead, and Trump stumbled upon it. Barack Obama used the IRS to go after pro-life groups, conservative groups, and Tea Party groups. Joe Biden&#8217;s DOJ targeted pro-lifers.
There&#8217;s nothing new here. Democrats have been doing this for a very, very long time.
Imagine the scandal if, for example, the Trump administration were coordinating with pro-life groups to go after abortion advocates. Can you imagine the scandal? Can you imagine the front page coverage?
One of the questions here is how people who were involved in this were allowed to stay at the DOJ for so long. Sanjay Patel was still working for the DOJ all the way until Monday, which is crazy and demonstrates the truth of President Trump&#8217;s statement that there is, in fact, a deep state.
There are lifelong appointees of various administrations who are still working inside the current administration — working against the president’s priorities. That&#8217;s very real. It just goes to show you that the attempt to cleanse the administration of holdovers is an ongoing pursuit.
The Democratic Party is perfectly willing to use the auspices of government to go after religious people. They&#8217;ve been doing it over and over and over again. It’s one of the reasons I said to my family that we ought to leave California. My great fear is that states like California will effectively quasi-criminalize religious practice by essentially saying that any 501C3 that receives tax-exempt status from the state government must buy into the left-wing social agenda.
If the Democrats were able to take over the Supreme Court, they would get away with that. They would be able to use anti-discrimination law as a guise for cracking down on First Amendment religiously protected activity. That is the direction that Democrats would love to move. And if left to their own devices, they absolutely would be able to do it.
If the Democrats had won in 2024, Kamala Harris would have attempted to stack the Supreme Court and state governments everywhere would be pursuing anti-religious activity just like this.
The Biden administration was, in my opinion, the worst administration in modern American history, worse even than Obama — because Obama didn&#8217;t say the quiet part out loud.
Biden said the quiet part out loud.

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The Biden Justice Department helped secure private funding for a major pro-abortion group that helped the Biden administration track and imprison peaceful pro-life protesters, a shocking new report reveals.
The Trump Department of Justice on Tuesday <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/media/1436006/dl?inline">released</a> an 800-page exposé on how the Biden administration weaponized the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act to target pro-life Americans. Originally designed to protect access to abortion clinics and crisis pregnancy centers, the Biden administration used the law largely to target peaceful pro-life protesters.
One of the most striking findings in Tuesday&#8217;s report is that a senior Biden DOJ official, identified as a key prosecutor on FACE Act cases, agreed to serve as a reference for the National Abortion Federation in a private grant application. According to the DOJ press <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-reveals-biden-administrations-weaponization-federal-law-against-pro-life">release</a>, investigators “found no record of ethics approval for the attorney to take an interest in the financial outcome of a party having business before the Biden DOJ.”
Emails show direct communication between DOJ attorney Sanjay Patel and National Abortion Federation officials regarding the request. In a December 2020 email, Patel told National Abortion Federation senior security director Tara Gannon to “Feel free to use me as a reference,” even as internal DOJ discussions acknowledged potential ethical concerns.
At one point, a supervisor suggested Patel consult with an ethics officer before proceeding. However, the report states that DOJ records contain no evidence that such approval was ever sought or granted. The Justice Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Daily Wire.
On Monday, Patel, among at least three other prosecutors, was fired for “weaponizing the FACE act,” according to CBS News.
The issue resurfaced in 2023, when the National Abortion Federation again approached Biden officials for help with a funding proposal. This time, the group requested a written “impact statement” on Justice Department letterhead to support its application, explicitly asking the official to describe their working relationship and the value of National Abortion Federation security operations.
While the DOJ attorney acknowledged he would need permission before complying, internal records show no indication the request was formally approved or denied.
Beyond the grant issue, the report paints a broader picture of what it describes as a “two-way” relationship between the Biden Justice Department and pro-abortion organizations.
According to investigators, communication between Biden officials and outside groups was frequent and often initiated by the department. Advocacy organizations provided tips, intelligence, and referrals related to potential FACE Act violations, sometimes at DOJ’s request, while prosecutors, in turn, shared information and maintained ongoing coordination.
“The Biden DOJ remained in continual contact with pro-abortion groups regarding the FACE Act,” the report states. “Information flowed two ways.”
That relationship effectively extended to operational support as well. When abortion groups raised concerns or sought assistance, Biden officials reportedly helped connect them with federal law enforcement resources, including the FBI. In some cases, the Task Force Director personally facilitated introductions and follow-ups. The level of coordination raises serious questions about impartiality, particularly given the DOJ’s aggressive use of the FACE Act during the same period, often targeting pro-life activists.
The communications revealed in Tuesday&#8217;s report also appear to conflict with testimony from a senior National Abortion Federation official.
During a congressional exchange with Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX), National Abortion Federation chief legal and strategy officer Talcott Camp was asked whether she had communicated with the Biden Justice Department regarding FACE Act enforcement.
“I have not,” Camp initially said, before qualifying that she “may have had contact” but did not believe it involved enforcement discussions.
However, emails suggest NAF had a far more extensive relationship, including coordination on cases and ongoing communication with Biden DOJ personnel tied directly to FACE Act enforcement efforts.
The report further alleges that while pro-abortion groups enjoyed regular access and responsiveness from Biden officials, pro-life organizations were not afforded the same level of engagement. Investigators found that DOJ prosecutors shared certain information with abortion advocacy groups that was not similarly disclosed to pro-life entities, raising concerns about unequal treatment under the law.
Additionally, the department’s commitment to pursuing FACE Act cases was, according to the report, at times aligned with the priorities and interests of those same outside groups.
“The Biden DOJ committed to pursuing FACE Act cases to support these groups’ interests,” the report states.
The National Abortion Federation has yet to respond to the findings in the report and did not respond to a request for comment.

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How Top Biden Prosecutors Helped Enrich Pro-Abortion Activists

Federal investigations are underway after TPUSA reporter Savanah Hernandez was attacked by a family while filming an anti-ICE protest in Minneapolis over the weekend.
Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon <a href="https://x.com/AAGDhillon/status/2044018262812303729">confirmed</a> the Department of Justice and FBI investigations on Tuesday after the Ostroushko family clashed with Hernandez at the protest outside the Whipple Federal Building, a local ICE field office, and a detention facility. The Hennepin County Sheriff&#8217;s Office has reportedly <a href="https://abc6onyourside.com/news/nation-world/tpusa-contributor-attacked-during-anti-ice-protest-federal-probe-underway-savannah-hernandez-andy-ngo-civil-rights">arrested</a> several people, three of them in connection with the alleged assault. 
The three individuals arrested include Chris Ostroushko, his daughter Paige, and Paige&#8217;s boyfriend, Lorenzo Garcia, 20, Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office <a href="https://www.aol.com/articles/man-accused-attacking-conservative-journalist-211341530.html?guccounter=1">told</a> the Daily Caller.
Chris and Garcia were arrested for obstruction with force, while Paige was arrested for disorderly conduct. Chris&#8217;s wife, Deyanna, was also identified on video confronting Hernandez but was not among those charged.
Hernandez caught several of the attacks on <a href="https://x.com/Savsays/status/2043088956351189051">video</a>, where she could clearly be seen being harassed and shoved by the protesters. Paige, a sophomore at University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, was shown blowing a whistle in Hernandez&#8217;s face before physically attacking Hernandez.
One video shows Chris pushing Hernandez to the ground.
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I&#8217;m waking up with a headache and stiff neck this morning due to how violently anti-ICE activist, Chris Ostroushko, shoved me down yesterday.
A second angle shows that he had to be held back by 5 men as he continued to charge at me.
I didn&#8217;t speak a word to him all day yet he… <a href="https://t.co/LjDx1GMLnF">pic.twitter.com/LjDx1GMLnF</a>
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In another <a href="https://x.com/Savsays/status/2043893070517633258">video</a>, the Ostroushko family is seen discussing the attack beforehand, in which Chris can be heard telling his daughter to &#8220;Blow the whistle right in her f*cking ear.”
Chris Ostroushko was previously known to law enforcement, as Crime Watch Minneapolis <a href="https://x.com/CrimeWatchMpls/status/2043725239159279977">reported</a> that he was convicted of defrauding the state after he illegally received unemployment benefits of nearly $ 7,000 in the early 2000s.
In an interview with Fox News’ Laura Ingraham on Monday, Hernandez <a href="https://x.com/Savsays/status/2043851758749819063">said</a> she believes the incident escalated because the protesters found out who she works for. &#8220;Since Charlie Kirk&#8217;s assassination, this is now the third time that people have come up to me &#8230; figured out I work for TPUSA, and have made a point to confront me, to threaten me, to harass me, and now brutally assault me, to prove a point.&#8221;
“I’m scared to report, Laura,” Hernandez admitted. “This is my job. It’s what I’ve been doing for the last six years.”
“I can&#8217;t even interview people properly on the street because I get brutally assaulted and pushed to the ground by a 250-pound man for simply going and reporting on anti-ICE activities,” she added.
&#8220;For far too long, the violent left has been allowed to get away with repeated attacks on journalists,&#8221; Hernandez <a href="https://x.com/Savsays/status/2043392312676397294">posted</a> to X. &#8220;I’m looking forward to justice being served after what happened yesterday.&#8221;
Border czar Tom Homan <a href="https://x.com/nicksortor/status/2043837999624970532">echoed</a> Hernandez on the show with Ingraham, &#8220;We cannot give up on this. We have to keep prosecuting these people &#8230; We cannot accept this as a norm in the United States of America.&#8221;

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